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Oslo Old Town City Private City Exploration Game
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Walking Tours
from $9.13 per adult (price varies by group size)
City Sightseeing Stockholm Hop-On Hop-Off Bus & Optional Boat Tour
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Bus Tours
from $41.43 per adult
Oslo City Walk
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City Tours
from $37.45 per adult
Oslo Shore Excursion: City Sightseeing Oslo Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Tour
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Bus Tours
from $46.30 per adult
Small-Group Oslo Bike Tour: City Highlights
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City Tours
from $43.74 per adult
Oslo E-bike Highlights Tour
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E-Bike Tours
from $97.37 per adult
Hire Photographer, Professional Photo Shoot - Oslo
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Walking Tours
from $137.08 per adult (price varies by group size)
City Sightseeing Oslo Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Tour
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Bus Tours
from $46.30 per adult
Private up to 8 hours Full-Day Exclusive Oslo Tailormade Limousine Tour
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Luxury Car Tours
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1h30h Art and Culture in Oslo with a Local
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Walking Tours
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Top Attractions in Oslo

1. Fram Museum

Speciality Museums • History Museums

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It tells the whole history of Norwegian Polar Exploration by exploring two actual ships and innumerable displays.

2. Viking Ship Museum

Speciality Museums • History Museums

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As burial ships, carrying the dead over to “the Other World”, the ships were equipped with unique treasures and they…

3. Norsk Folkemuseum

Historic Sites • Amusement & Theme Parks

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The various buildings have been moved to this open air museum over the years and represent not only historic building…

4. Vigeland Park

Parks

In reality it is a world created by Gustav Vigeland, who designed the park to showcase his life's work of 200…

5. The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet

Operas • Theaters

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It is an ambitious structure that has to inspire the citizens of Oslo.

6. Oslo Fjord

Bodies of Water

The fjord creates a unique scenery of the Nordic capital.

7. Holmenkollen Ski Museum

Speciality Museums

It covers all of Norway's history in its national sport, and shows progression and exhibits throughout various Winter…

8. Kon-Tiki Museum

Speciality Museums • History Museums

Admission tickets from $14.61

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This museum is dedicated to an adventurer and its fight to cross the seas in a peculiar boat made according with…

9. Frogner Park

Parks

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The heart of the display is a ring of sculptures displaying the circle of life through a series of life size - or…

10. Vigeland Museum

Art Museums

The park contains over 200 sculptures by a single artist Gustav Vigeland making the park the largest of its kind in the…

11. Sognsvann Lake

Bodies of Water

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Oslo is surrounded by a vast forest dotted with idyllic lakes.

12. Aker Brygge

Shopping Malls

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The neighborhood was once the site of a shipyard, Akers Mekaniske Verksted, but the opening of Oslo's ground-breaking…

13. Bygdoy Peninsula

Bodies of Water • Biking Trails

This is a unique arctic experience showing Amundsen's journeys to the North Pole, the South Pole, Northwest Passage.

14. Akershus Castle and Fortress (Akershus Slott og Festning)

Historic Sites • Castles

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This historically significant complex dating back to the 1300s but made popular during the reign of Danish-Norwegian…

15. Astrup Fearnley Museet

Art Museums

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The ensemble of canals, bridges and buildings constitute an integrated environment with the landscape of this part of…

16. Oslo City Hall

Historic Sites • Architectural Buildings

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Built in the 50s, this building is open to the public and is filled with compelling murals that tell many stories of…

17. Oslomarka

Historic Walking Areas • Nature & Wildlife Areas

Oslo is surounded by posisbilities for outdoor activety and trecking.

18. Ekebergparken

Parks

Gamle Oslo

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Established in 2013, this collection of 31 sculptures, property of the C. Ringnes Foundation is housed in a lovely…

19. The Royal Palace

Historic Sites • Castles

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This building is where the daily work of the monarchy is conducted and is also the royal residence to HM King Harald V…

20. Botanical Gardens (Botanisk Hage og Museum)

Speciality Museums

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Thousands of speices enage in homosexual realtions to different degrees.

21. Karl Johans gate

Points of Interest & Landmarks

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In between a vibrant city of people, cafe's, restaurants, shops and the parliament building.

22. Norges Hjemmefrontmuseum

Military Museums • History Museums

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Located in the Akerhus Fortress near Oslo Harbour is the permanent clearly explained exposition housed about the…

23. Drobak

Historic Sites

The interior walls is filled with thousands of letters to Mr Santa from children and people all over the world.

24. Korketrekkeren

Ski & Snowboard Areas

this downhill slope was built for the Olympics in Oslo 1952 as a bobslide track, today its soly used for fun!

25. Nobel Peace Center

Speciality Museums

Temporarily closed

This is a collection of photographs highlighting the peace process of the Columbian people who have been in civil war…

26. HIMKOK Storgata Destilleri

Distilleries • Breweries

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Copper piping, craft beer tanks and the bartenders dressed as a professor.

27. Hovedoya

Islands

Gamle Oslo

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The island is a combination of historic military activity, word war 2 settlement by germans and a botanic treasure.

28. Akerselva River

Bodies of Water

Oslo's own river, the traditional line between east and west.

29. Nordmarka

Nature & Wildlife Areas • Hiking Trails

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Nordmarka is the name of the forest surrounding the city of Oslo, and the keeper of Oslo's soul.

30. Oslo Visitor Centre

Visitor Centers

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This information center is housed in the Central Train station complex.

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